Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Virtualization of AOS - VMWare versus Hyper-V

A very interesting thread on the Dynamics AX Community forum regarding virtualization of AOS.

As stated, the only important information missing right now, is a description of the differences in the underlying infrastructure between the VMWare and Hyper-V implementations.

Update:
Te original poster has published information regarding the infrastructure and this information only increases the value of this subject - he has managed to test virtualization of the AOS role under VMWare and Hyper-V on the same (identical) infrastructure! This makes his findings extremely interesting (at least to me) partly because it leaves room for possible reasons/explanations/theories and maybe the biggest paradox - if his findings are true in general, a lot of customers running AOS under VMWare are possibly influenced by decreased performance caused by differences in how the AOS behaves on VMWare. Since most customers most likely are using VMWare, the scope of this subject with regards to the number of customers possibly affected, makes it one of the most interesting subjects in a long time.

It could of course be tightly coupled to the OS and how the OS performs under the two hypervisors (as mentioned as a possible reason in the thread) and I will be light on this until some more research has been done.

Comments are welcome as usual.

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